Serving device



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Wzfalw czly ATTORNEYS.

Patented Sept. 22, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SERVING D'EVICEWalter J. Tiiroczy, Wilmington, Del.

Application September 13, 1939, Serial No. 294,761

1 Claim.

This invention aims to provide a serving device, adapted to hold a glassof potable liquid, or a fruit cocktail, the article being so constructedthat adequate drainage from the melting ice will be provided, and thedevice being so constructed that a minimum amount of ice will bevnecessary to effect the cooling operation.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and toenhance the utility of devices of that type to which the presentinventionV appertains.

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within thescope of what is claime-d, without departing from the spirit of theinvention.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 shows in Vertical section, an article constructed in accordancewith the invention;

Fig. 2 is a top plan;

Fig. 3 is a Vertical section at right angles to the cutting plane inFig. 1;

Fg. 4 is a sectional View showing a modified form of lid.

The device forming the subject matter of this application may be made ofany material commonly employed in the construction of what may bealluded to generally as drinking glasses. It comprises a tubular tumblerholder and ice-drip collector I, carried by a supporting disk 2 or otherfoot, shaped as desired. The numeral 3 designates an ice receptacle,preferably funnelshaped, and connected at its lower end to the tumblerholder and water collector I close to the' upper end of the holder. Thetumbler holder and water collector I includes a short, tubular extensionor ice-holder 4, prolonged upwardly above the place 5 Where the icereceptacle 3 is connected to the tumbler holder and water collector.Thus there is formed about the extension 4, and within the icereceptacle 3, a collecting trough 6 which receives water from themelting' ice, the water finding an exit into the part I through anydesired number of openings 'I in the extension 4, those openings beinglocated far enough down so that they will drain the trough 6.

A tumbler 8 is placed in the tumbler holder I, as shown in Fig. 3. Theextension 4 has afunction other than providing the collecting trough 6.The extension 4 at the upper end of the holder I retains the ice, andprevents the ice from sliding down into the holder I. It is to beobserved that the upper portion of the tumbler 8, only, is in contactwith the ice. A sma11 amount of ice, therefore, can be used, and the iceoverhead can be reduced accordingly. The upper part of the contents ofthe tumbler 8, only, is subjected to the action of the ice, but theliquid will interchange by convection circulation in the tumbler 8, anda drink may be cooled adequately without embedding the tumbler,throughout its entire height, in ice.

By way of Summary, the serving device forming the subject matter of thisapplication comprises a tubular tumbler holder and ice-drip collector I,and a funnel-shaped ice receptacle 3 connected to the holder I, at aplace close to the upper end of the holder I, to form, at the upper endof the holder I, a short tubular stop 4 disposed within the receptacle3. The combined height of the holder I and the stop 4 is greater thanthe height of the receptacle 3 above the stop 4, and the combined heightof the holder I, the stop 4 and the receptacle 3 is slightly less thanthe height of the tumbler employed, to permit ice in the receptacle 3 tocome into contact with the upper portion of the tumbler 8 and to reducethe amount of ice required. The stop 4 serves to limit ice from slidinginto the holder I when the tumbler 8 is removed from the holder. Thestop 4 is provided with the drainage opening `I, located at the lowerend of the receptacle 3 and communicating with the holder I.

The device is adapted to be used for cooling a fruit Cocktail,compounded in a hemispherical piece I I of fruit, and with that end inView, a lid 9 may be placed on the upper end of the extension 4, the lidbeing prevented from shuckin'g about, by a depending flange III on thelid, extended around the extension 4, which is disposed within thereceptacle 3. The construction is such that the piece II of fruit alwaysis centered properly in the ice receptacle 3. The lid 9 carries anupstanding fruit seat I2, preferably composed of a plurality of radialwings I4, concaved on their upper edges as shown at IE, to receive andretain the fruit I I. The drainage advantages remain as specifiedhereinbefore, in connection with the tumbler 8.

The device is easy to handle while filling an order or serving. Uniformcooling is brought about. The article is simple to keep clean and easyto store.

In the event that the piece II of fruit is not used, edibles of any kindcan be placed in the receptacle 3, above the lid 9. If the fruit seat |2is not desired, recourse may be had to the plain lid |6 of Fig. 4, andthe lid 6 will serve as a cover for the part I when that element isemployed simply as a container.

The lid 9 of Fig. 1, or the lid |6 of Fig. 4, can be placed on thetumbler 8 of Fig. 3. Under such circumstances, the packing of the iceWill be facilitated, the liquid in the tumbler 8 will be protected, andspilling of the liquid in the course of service Will .be prevented. w

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

A device for serving viands in a tumbler, comprising a tubular holdershaped to receive the tumbler used, a laterally-extendedvfoot fixedlyassembled With the lower end of the holder, and so shaped on its uppersurface that it will shed liquid, in the interest of neatness, alaterallyenlarged ice receptacle fixedly assembled with the holder at aplace near enough to the upper end of the holder to form a shortextension which prevents ice in the receptacle from sliding into theholder When a tumbler is removed therefrom, the height of the extension,relatively to the height of the receptacle, and the height of thereceptacle relatively to the height of the tumbler used, being such thatan increased amount of the height of the tumbler,c1ose to the upper endof the tumbler, and where the contents of the tumbler is Warmest, willhave direct contact with ice in the receptacle, the receptacle and theex- Vtension forming a circumscribing trough, the extension having anopening, located at the lowermost portion of the trough and dischargingicedrip into the holder, to conceal the drip.

WALTER J. TUROCZY.

